You may start up Windows 2000 installation from CD. If your CD-ROM drive isnot bootable, your can start up with floppy diskettes.

1. If you choose to install Windows 2000 from floppies, create four Windows 2000 set up floppy diskettes from CD before installation.

2. Power off the system and connect hard drives and CD-ROM drives to the CMD IDE controller. Insert CMD IDE controller to a PCI slot.

3. Put the diskette #1 into drive A or put the CD into CD-ROM/DVD drive if you choose to boot up from CD. Turn on your computer system.

4. Press 'F1' key to enter IDE mode when IDE controller BIOS is scanning devices. Notes: This step is required only when you are using a controller BIOS that default to RAID mode.

5. Continue to insert floppy diskette #2, #3, #4 if you are installing from floppy diskettes.

6. Wait while files are copied from floppy or CD in the text mode installation. Caution: Do not press F6 for third party SCSI or RAID driver installation during this time. CMD PCI0648 controller does not use SCSI or RAID driver under Windows 2000.

8. After setup examines your disks, it would copy files to Windows 2000 installation folders and restart the system. Again, Press 'F1' key to enter IDE mode when IDE controller BIOS is scanning devices if you are using a controller BIOS that default to RAID mode.

The setup program would continue to finish installation after restart.

You may start up Windows 95/98/ME installation from CD. If your CD-ROM drive isnot bootable, your can start up with floppy diskettes.

1. Install Windows 95/98/ME using the onboard IDE controller. Do not plug in CMD PCI-IDE controller card at this time.2. When the operating system installation is completed and system is up and running. Insert the CMD installation driver diskette into a 3.5" floppy drive.3. Press the "start" button on the Windows status bar.4. Select "Run..."5. Type "a:\win9x\setup"; where "a" is the identifying letter for the 3.5" floppy drive.6. After the Setup program copies the driver files from diskette to system hard drive, the system will prompt "Shutdown the system and install the PCI-64X IDE controller." When this prompt appears, click "OK" and remove the installation diskette from the floppy drive. Windows will shut down the system.7. Inset CMD PCI-IDE controller into a PCI slot that supports bus-master DMA. (Your computer's manual should identify the bus-master slots.)8. Connect your IDE drives to the CMD PCI-IDE controller card.9. Power up the system. The CMD PCI-IDE controller card on-board BIOS should automatically detect the drives connected to it once power-up is complete.10. System will go through the enumeration process and detect new hardware. At the end of the process, Windows will prompt "to finish setting up your hew hardware, you must restart your computer." Simply select "No" for this message and all the other messages that follow. Do a manual restart from desktop instead (start -> shut down -> restart).